After a surprisingly brutal attack on his asteroid mining ship, James Holden finds himself Captain of a small, intimate crew suddenly in possession both of a small state-of-art combat ship and a terrible secret... oh, and when it comes to secrets, Jim Holden tends to have a big mouth.

Detective Miller of the asteroid space station Ceres, on the trail of a missing girl, soon finds he's not quite the ace detective he thought he was, but insists on seeing his case through to the bittersweet end.

And that missing girl? She too discovered a secret while trying to avoid being thrown out an airlock. That secret? Results in the death of millions in quite a gruesome manner worthy of the Alien franchise.

All these elements blend together in an excellent start to a new series that I'm drooling with anticipation to continue reading.